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You know this feeling, you find something really cool, it makes you so happy and then you want to share it with all your friends?!

Dear family and friends! This is why we missionaries share the gospel! This is why more than 80’000 young men and women spend 1,5 to 2 years sharing the gospel! This is why I want to share this with you! Living after the commandmends brings us greater joy than anything else. The coolest thing in the world is, that you really can try this out and actually see a result. This is real! I know that God is our Heavenly Father and he loves us more than you can ever imagine. Following the commandemens enables us to see and feel that love. In a world of changing morals and values it is absolutly important that we always trust the loving, unchanging directions of God.

We missionaries show people the way, how to do “start” following the commandments. This is amazing I can tell you. We see how suddenly light, hope, peace and love comes in to their live. God sent his Son Jesus Christ to this earth to suffer for all our sind, afflictions and pains. He wants us to be happy and loving as he is! He knows us, his children very good and prepared a way, how we can find everlasting happyness in this world, even for after this life.

This plan is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, it contains 5 steps:

Faith in Jesus Christ

Repentance

Baptism, our first covenant with God

The Gift of the Holy Ghost

Endure to the End

When you follow this steps, you find great happyness and your life get’s better every day. The best; you realize how God really loves his children and all what you want to do, is to share that 🙂

Here is what Lehi, the first Prophet in the Book of Mormon said about this:

1 Nephi 1:14

“Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thypower, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!”

I know that God really loves you. He want to show you that! For this we need to turn to him. The best way to do this is by prayer in the Name of Jesus Christ!

This time here in Ukraine is amazing! Even though there is a war going on on the other side of the country, we enjoy every day here! Here in Kiev we don’t feel any kind of nervousity, panic or something, that’s good 🙂

The work of the Lord is continuiung and I am thankful to be a part of this, serving as a fulltime missionary 😀

Because time is really short today, I just wanted to share with you a video published recently from the Church:
Enjoy it!

Dear Family and Friends!
This week has been really cool! We were invited to a wedding! The couple first got sealed in the Kiev Temple and then joined together with guests in our ward building for a wedding party. The sealing is the most sacrad ordinance that takes place in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and is to bind man and woman and their children together forever. We had the unique opportunity to be guests in that sealing session, that was amazing! God has prepared a way, how families can be together forever. More about this you can read here -> sealing

The wedding party was very cute and they had a very fun and cool program prepared 🙂
For the reception, traditionally they eat from a big bread cake with salt.

good healthy food and nice decoration 😀

Dear Friends! With all my soul I know, that this is the true church of God, which has been restored by a prophet named Joseph Smith and that he restored all the knowledge and ordinances that can bring us greater joy then we can ever imagine. I invite you to take the challenge from an old prophet named Moroni, and ask God in the name of Jesus Christ if this is the true Church of God. When you really want to find out, you will get an answer and nobody will be able tell you otherwise!

A small side note. The church is named after the son of God, Jesus Christ. There is God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. God and Jesus Christ both have bodies. The Holy Ghost not. He is a personage of spirit, so he can dwell in us, to give us a good feeling, when we do something good or read/hear/see about something that is from God.

Right now, here in Ukraine I am serving for a small two years of my life for the Lord and his kingdom, to spread this amazing message to the world! You know WHY? Because I love you so much! We are all brothers and sisters and children of a loving Heavenly Father. Of this I bear testimony, that all this is true!

Dear friends, … I don’t know what to write, weeks are just flying by. We are having a really nice time here. The work in the Lord’s vineyard is more amazing then ever! There are many people out there searching for the truth. The most wonderful thing is to share with them our testimony that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church of Jesus Christ and that he personally is leading this church right now.

Last Monday a friend took us to a huge “outside museum”, about ukrainian culture. Watch and see 🙂